Nairobi — Sixty per cent of soldiers involved in Somalia's conflict are children, a UN official has said.
The secretary-general's Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Dr Radhika Coomaraswamy, told the Sunday Nation that a majority of the children had been enlisted in militia groups fighting the Transitional Federal Government (TFG).
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